react-grid-layout-builder

React-grid-layout-builder offers a React user interface to interact with the react-grid-layout configuration. Be careful:

• React-grid-layout-builder doesn't add additional features to existing React-grid-layout. Read more about React-grid-layout features if required.
• React-grid-layout-builder works only on responsive react-grid-layout. Any help on other React-grid-layout component is welcome :)

Motivation

React-grid-layout is fun. I wanted to play with it without coding the configuration. So I tried to make a user-friendly editor. Happy to share it now :)

Demos

1. Bootstrap editor DEMO
2. Material editor DEMO

Installation

To try it locally:

• clone this repository
• go into the cloned folder
• cmd npm i
• cmd npm run start
• open urls
  • http://localhost:3100/bootstrap/index.html for bootstrap editor
  • http://localhost:3100/material-ui/index.html for material-ui editor

To install as dependency:

Install the React-Grid-Layout-builder package package using npm:

npm install react-grid-layout-builder

Include the following stylesheets in your application:

/node_modules/react-grid-layout-builder/css/styles.css
/node_modules/react-grid-layout/css/styles.css
/node_modules/react-resizable/css/styles.css

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/latest/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheets/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css">

This builder editor is graphically powered by Bootstrap

Include the following stylesheets in your application:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/latest/css/bootstrap.min.css">

Or create your own editor on the model given in src/bootstrapEditor. You'll be able to add fields or remove others In that case, you'll have to wrap it with connectReactGridLayoutBuilderToEditor. Example:

 
//YourOwnBuilderEditor is a copy of src/bootstrapEditor with your own style and your own fields
var ReactGridLayoutBuilder = connectReactGridLayoutBuilderToEditor(YourOwnBuilderEditor);
export default ReactGridLayoutBuilder;

This opening dock icon is graphically powered by Bootstrap

Include the following stylesheets in your application if you use it:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/latest/css/bootstrap.min.css">

Or put the editor anywhere else on your app.

Features

React-grid-layout-builder is to use on the responsive react-grid-layout only and can be used to:

• track any changes when playing with React-grid-layout
• edit number of columns on the fly
• edit breakpoints pixel value on the fly
• edit the height defined as basic row
• set all the grid as static

Usage

All questions about the grid generation and the possible configurable options are presents on react-grid-layout repository. I trust you know how to use react-grid-layout and will explain now how React-Grid-Layout-builder works. React-Grid-Layout-builder is used as a wrapper on an existing React-Grid-Layout component. To demonstrate how to us the builder, I'll try it on the responsive react-grid-layout example

To have the builder work with the responsive react-grid-layout example, we must:

• import the connect function connectReactGridLayoutBuilder to track any change in the react-grid-layout component
• import the builder ReactGridLayoutBuilder to offer additional field to modify the react-grid-layout configuration
• put the react-grid-layout configuration into a state to be able to modify it from a callback
• sent the callback that modify the react-grid-layout configuration to both connectReactGridLayoutBuilder and ReactGridLayoutBuilder

An example:

import {Responsive, WidthProvider} from 'react-grid-layout';
import ReactGridLayoutBuilder, {connectReactGridLayoutBuilder} from 'react-grid-layout-builder';
 
//the responsive react-grid-layout is wrapped to be connected to the builder functions
const ResponsiveReactGridLayout = connectReactGridLayoutBuilder(WidthProvider(Responsive)); 
 
...
constructor() {
  super();
  //the grid layout is put on the state
  this.state.gridLayout = 
    layouts: getLayoutsFromSomewhere(),
    breakpoints: {lg: 1200, md: 996, sm: 768, xs: 480, xxs: 0},
    cols: {lg: 12, md: 10, sm: 6, xs: 4, xxs: 2}
  }
}
 
//any update from the grid layout or from the builder will update the component state to update both ReactGridLayoutBuilder & ResponsiveReactGridLayout data
updateConfig = (newGridLayout) => {
  this.setState({gridLayout: newGridLayout});
}
  
//An additional props updateConfigFunc must be provided to ResponsiveReactGridLayout to be able to track relevant changes when playing with the grid layout component it-self
//The usual react grid layout configuration, put in the component state, is sent to the grid layout component.
render() {
  return (
    <div>
      <ReactGridLayoutBuilder reactGridLayout={this.props.conf} updateConfigFunc={this.props.updateConfig}/>
      <ResponsiveReactGridLayout className="layout" 
        {...this.state.gridLayout}
        updateConfigFunc={this.props.updateConfig}>
        <div key={"1"}>1</div>
        <div key={"2"}>2</div>
        <div key={"3"}>3</div>
      </ResponsiveReactGridLayout>
    </div>
  )
}
...

API:

ReactGridLayoutBuilder

<ReactGridLayoutBuilder/> is a react component that renders fields to edit some of the react-grid-layout possible props.

This component uses Bootstrap & React-Bootstrap for rendering the fields

The builder can be used to set:

// If true, the container height swells and contracts to fit contents
autoSize: ?boolean = true,
 
// {name: pxVal}, e.g. {lg: 1200, md: 996, sm: 768, xs: 480}
// Breakpoint names are arbitrary but must match in the cols and layouts objects.
breakpoints: ?Object = {lg: 1200, md: 996, sm: 768, xs: 480, xxs: 0},
 
// # of cols. This is a breakpoint -> cols map, e.g. {lg: 12, md: 10, ...}
cols: ?Object = {lg: 12, md: 10, sm: 6, xs: 4, xxs: 2},
 
// If true, the layout will compact vertically
verticalCompact: ?boolean = true,
 
// Margin between items [x, y] in px.
margin: ?[number, number] = [10, 10],
 
// Rows have a static height, but you can change this based on breakpoints
// if you like.
rowHeight: ?number = 150,
 
//
// Flags
//
isDraggable: ?boolean = true,
isResizable: ?boolean = true,

connectReactGridLayoutBuilder

connectReactGridLayoutBuilder is a high order component wrapping the responsive react-grid-layout component to trigger a callback updateConfig when the layout is changed there. the callback has as parameter the react-grid-layout possible props.

import {Responsive, WidthProvider} from 'react-grid-layout';
import {connectReactGridLayoutBuilder} from 'react-grid-layout-builder';
 
//the responsive react-grid-layout is wrapped to be connected to the builder functions
const ResponsiveReactGridLayout = connectReactGridLayoutBuilder(WidthProvider(Responsive)); 
 
...
constructor() {
  super();
  //the grid layout is put on the state
  this.state.gridLayout = 
    layouts: getLayoutsFromSomewhere(),
    breakpoints: {lg: 1200, md: 996, sm: 768, xs: 480, xxs: 0},
    cols: {lg: 12, md: 10, sm: 6, xs: 4, xxs: 2}
  }
}
 
//any update from the grid layout or from the builder will update the component state to update both ReactGridLayoutBuilder & ResponsiveReactGridLayout data
updateConfig = (newGridLayout) => {
  this.setState({gridLayout: newGridLayout});
}
  
//An additional props updateConfigFunc must be provided to ResponsiveReactGridLayout to be able to track relevant changes when playing with the grid layout component it-self
//The usual react grid layout configuration, put in the component state, is sent to the grid layout component.
render() {
  return (
    <div>
      <ResponsiveReactGridLayout className="layout" 
        {...this.state.gridLayout}
        updateConfigFunc={this.props.updateConfig}>
        <div key={"1"}>1</div>
        <div key={"2"}>2</div>
        <div key={"3"}>3</div>
      </ResponsiveReactGridLayout>
    </div>
  )
}
...

withOpeningDock

withOpeningDock is a high order component used to have a react component displayed only if the user choose it. This is a simple UI component and you can choose to not use it if you want.

If you want to use it, wrap ReactGridLayoutBuilder with it:

import ReactGridLayoutBuilder, {withOpeningDock} from '../../src';
const ReactGridLayoutBuilder = connectReactGridLayoutBuilder(WidthProvider(Responsive)); 
var DockedReactGridLayoutBuilder = withOpeningDock(ReactGridLayoutBuilder);
 
...
render() {
  return (
    <div>
      <DockedReactGridLayoutBuilder reactGridLayout={this.props.conf} updateConfigFunc={this.props.updateConfig}/>
      <ResponsiveReactGridLayout className="layout" 
        {...this.state.gridLayout}
        updateConfigFunc={this.props.updateConfig}>
        <div key={"1"}>1</div>
        <div key={"2"}>2</div>
        <div key={"3"}>3</div>
      </ResponsiveReactGridLayout>
    </div>
  )
}
...

TODO List

• Get feedbacks and improve
• Transform the generated layout as static
• Choose which item is static or not
• Choose which item is displayed or not
• Provide an editor for not-responsive grid layout
• Provide an editor based on material UI (thanks to @nywooz)
• Have the materia-ui demo working without bootstrap css (fix css grid)
• Save & load the current custom layout in local storage (thanks to @nywooz)
• Download the current layout & upload a custom one (thanks to @nywooz)